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ARMAMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("armament" is a kind of...):
militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armament"):
outfitting (the act of renovating and fitting out a ship)
rearmament (the act of arming again)
Antonym:
disarmament (act of reducing or depriving of arms)
Derivation:
arm (prepare oneself for a military confrontation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Weaponry used by military or naval force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("armament" is a kind of...):
arms; implements of war; munition; weaponry; weapons system (weapons considered collectively)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armament"):
armory; armoury; arsenal (all the weapons and equipment that a country has)
artillery; gun; heavy weapon; ordnance (large but transportable armament)
broadside (all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship)
launcher; rocket launcher (armament in the form of a device capable of launching a rocket)
munition; ordnance; ordnance store (military supplies)
torpedo (armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target)
Derivation:
arm (supply with arms)
